Solar Tempometer
Calculate
your solar time*
Proceed
as follows:
First
look up your longitude.
Examples:
Paris
F: 48n85, 2e34,
France
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New
York (US):
40n71, 74w03,
US
|
Amsterdam
NETH: 52n36, 4e89,
Netherlands
|
Den
Hague NETH:
52n07, 4e30,
Netherlands
|
Tokyo,
JAPAN: 35n67,
139e76,
Japan
|
For
New York e.g. must below
next be entered
at longitude degree 74
and with the minutes 0
!
New York (US) is west (w)
of Greenwich.
(Attention: use
installs a cookie
keeping your setting
for 14 days).
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*:
Solar Time = GMT
corrected for the Equation of Time
- Greenwich Mean Time
= the time standard for the entire
world.
It is mean local time to the longitude
of zero irrespective summertime.
It is also called UTC (Universal Time
Coordinated) or worldtime.
The time on your clock differs from
this one
depending your time zone and
summertime.
- Equation of Time
= the difference the clock makes with
a sundial.